--- title: "Why Airbnb are 'Sunsetting' React Native" publication: "React Status" issue: 93 published_at: "2018-06-22" canonical_url: "https://react.statuscode.com/issues/93" --- This week's React news #93 — June 22, 2018 [Read on the Web](https://react.statuscode.com/issues/93) react status [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/oqrevqrxp7ydmutlqulw.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et571vTAtT8) ▶[Creating create-react-app](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et571vTAtT8) — In 20 minutes, Shawn deftly covers the history and motivations behind the popular [Create React App](https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app) tool, how it works under the hood, and how you’d create your own variants of it. 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Learn strategies for tooling, frontend and UX, testing and performance to boost your (and your team’s) productivity. Get your free copy. Progress Kendo UI sponsor [Announcing Gatsby V2 Beta](https://www.gatsbyjs.org/blog/2018-06-16-announcing-gatsby-v2-beta-launch/) — Version two of this static site generator for React ditches layout components and introduces improved hot reloading and upgraded dependencies. [Life After Layouts](https://www.gatsbyjs.org/blog/2018-06-08-life-after-layouts/) explains what layout components going away really means. Mike Allanson [downshift 2.0 Released: Build Accessible Autocomplete, Dropdown, and Select Components](https://blog.kentcdodds.com/downshift-2-released-26b49589e8d2) — Adds React Native and ReasonReact support, a simpler API, improved docs, Flow and TypeScript support. [GitHub repo](https://github.com/paypal/downshift) and [demos.](http://downshift.netlify.com/) Kent C. 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